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Making speech gestures audible involves pushing air out of the ____ while producing a noise in the throat or mouth

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Lungs

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Basic source of power in nearly all speech sounds

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Respiratory system

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Air pathway

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Lung, trachea, larynx, vocal folds, pharynx, mouth

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Voiced sounds

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Vibrating vocal folds

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Voiceless sounds

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Vocal folds are apart

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Vocal tract

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Air passages above the larynx

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2 parts of the vocal tract

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Oral tract (within mouth and larynx) and nasal tract (within nose)

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When the flap at the
back of the mouth is lowered, air goes in and out through the ___

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Nose

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Nasal sounds are produced with air going __in/out through the nose

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Out

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Articulators

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Parts of the vocal tracts used to form sounds (tongue and lips)

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Airstream process

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All of the ways of pushing air out (or in) that provide the power for speech

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Phonation process

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Actions of the vocal folds (voiced or voiceless)

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Oro-nasal process

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Possibility of the airstream going out
through the mouth when the velum is raised (e.g. in fricatives) or the nose when the velum is lowered (e.g. in nasals)

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3 levels of speech sounds

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(1) pitch, (2) loudness, and (3) quality

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Sound consists of small variations in air ____ that occur very rapidly one
after another

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Pressure

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In voiced sounds, vibrating vocal folds make air alternate between high and low ____

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Pressure

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Air pressure rises with ___less/more vocal folds vibration

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More

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Low amplitude means low/high loudness

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Low

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Low amplitude or voiceless sounds are linked to smaller/bigger, more random variations in air pressure

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Smaller

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Voiced sounds have regular, ___smaller/bigger variations in air pressure

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Bigger

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The articulators that form the ___lower/higher surface of the vocal tract are highly mobile

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Lower

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Direction of movement of articulators

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From low to high

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Alveolar ridge

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Proteburance just behind the upper teeth

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Front part of the roof of the mouth

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Hard palate

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Soft palate
Muscular flap that can be raised to press against the back wall of the pharynx
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Velic closure
When the soft palate is shutting off the nasal tract, preventing air from going out through the nose. It separates the nasal tract from the oral tract so that the air can go out only through the mouth.
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Uvula
Small appendage hanging down the lower end of the soft palate
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The part of the vocal tract between the uvula and the larynx
Pharynx
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The tip and blade of the ____ are the most mobile parts
Tongue
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Front of the tongue
Forward part of the body of the tongue that lies underneath the hard palate when the tongue is at rest
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Center of the tongue
Partly beneath the hard palate and partly beneath the soft palate
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Back of the tongue
Beneath the soft palate
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Root of the tongue
Opposite the back wall of the pharynx
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Epiglottis
Attached to the lower part of the root of the tongue.
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Mid-sagittal view
Two-dimensional diagram that shows just the midline of the tongue
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In order to form consonants, the airstream through the vocal tract must be _____ in some way.
Obstructed
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Primary articulators that can cause an obstruction in most languages
Lips, the tongue tip and blade, and the back of the tongue.
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Labial articulations
Speech gestures using the lips
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Coronal articulations
Using the tip or blade of the tongue
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Dorsal articulations
Using the back of the tongue
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Bilabial sounds
Made with the 2 lips
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Labiodental sounds
Lower lip and upper front teeth
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Dental
Tongue tip or blade and upper front teeth
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Interdental
Sounds in which the tongue protrudes between the teeth
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Alveolar
Tongue tip or blade and the alveolar ridge
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Retroflex
Tongue tip and the back of the alveolar ridge
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Palato-Alveolar
Tongue blade and the back of the alveolar ridge.
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Palatal
Front of the tongue and hard palate
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Velar
Back of the tongue and soft palate
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Labials
Bilabial and labiodental
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Coronals
Dental, alveolar, retroflex, and palato-alveolar (postalveolar)
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Dorsal
Velar
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In most speech, the soft palate is raised so that there is a velic ____opening/closure.
Closure
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Nasal consonant
When the soft palate is lowered and there is an obstruction in the mouth
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Oral stop/plosives
In addition to the articulatory closure in the mouth, the soft palate is raised so that the nasal tract is blocked off, and the airstream will be completely obstructed. Pressure in the mouth will build up
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Nasal stop
The air is stopped in the oral cavity but the soft palate is down so that air can go out through the nose
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The word stop is commonly used to imply a complete stoppage of the airflow through both...
The nose and the mouth (oral stops)
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Fricative
Close approximation of two articulators so that the airstream is partially obstructed and turbulent airflow is produced
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Sibilants
Higher-pitched fricatives with a more obvious hiss, such as those in sigh, shy
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Approximant
A gesture in which one articulator is close to another, but without the vocal tract being narrowed to such an extent that a turbulent airstream is produced
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Lateral (Approximant)
Obstruction of the airstream at a point along the center of the oral tract, with incomplete closure between one or both sides of the tongue and the roof of the mouth
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Taps
The tongue makes a single tap against the alveolar ridge
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Affricate
The articulators (tongue tip or blade and alveolar ridge) come together for the stop and then, instead of coming fully apart, separate only slightly, so that a fricative is made at approximately the same place of articulation.
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Glottal stop
Stop at beginning of words starting with a vowel
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Front vowel
The tongue tip is down behind the lower front teeth, and the body of the tongue is domed upward
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Back vowels
The tongue is close to the back surface of the vocal tract.
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3 levels of vowels
(1) the height of the body of the tongue; (2) the front–back position of the tongue; and (3) the degree of lip rounding.
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Vowels contain a number of different ____ simultaneously
Pitches
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The pitch at which the vowel is spoken depends on the ____ being produced by the vibrating vocal folds
Pulses
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Overtone pitches depend on the shape of the resonating ____ of the vocal tract.
Cavities
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What gives the vowel its distinctive quality
The pitches of the overtones
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The only sensation of pitch is the note on which the vowel is said, which depends on the rate of _____ of the vocal folds
Vibration
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Higher overtone
Goes downward and corresponds roughly to the difference between front and back vowels
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Vowel height overtone direction of pitch
Low for vowels in which the tongue position is high and high for vowels in which the tongue position is low.
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Formants
Overtones of the vowels
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First formant
Lower pitch
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Second formant
Higher pitch
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Suprasegmentals
Variations in stress, pitch and length
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Stress in English is produced by ...
(1) increased activity of the respiratory muscles, producing greater loudness (2) exaggeration of consonant and vowel properties, such as vowel height and stop aspiration (3) exaggeration of pitch so that low pitches are lower and high pitches are higher
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Pitch changes due to variations in _____ activity can occur independently of stress changes.
Laryngeal
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Pitch changes
Change of rate of vibration of the vocal folds
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Each opening and closing of the vocal folds causes ____ of air pressure in the sound wave
A peak
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Frequency (Hz)
Number of complete repetitions (cycles) of a pattern of air pressure variation occurring in a second.
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1 Hertz (Hz) correspond to...
Number of closing and opening movement/second
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When a speech sound goes _____ in frequency, it also goes _____ in pitch.
Up
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The pitch of a sound may be equated with its fundamental _____
Frequency
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The pitch pattern in a sentence is known as the _______
Intonation
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Children and women have a higher ____
Pitch
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Mainly rising intonation indicates ...
A question

Phonetics (12 decks)

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